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Delete that bloated snippets file you've been using and share your personal repository with the world.
That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and
voted up or down.

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Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted
to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning,
there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

Google Cloud SDK comes with a package manager `gcloud components` but it needs a bit of `sed` to work. Modify the "^| Not" bit to change the package selection. (The gcloud --format option is currently broken)

There are many ways to do it on *nix. But on Windows, it's a bit convoluted.

I use the above command expression in a batch file to check if a process is running already before running it again. I use this is a batch file I created to switch between 2 different versions of PowerBuilder (PB). I wanted to make sure, one version of PB is not running, before letting the user to switch, hence this check. (replace notepad.exe with PB125.exe above).

/nh means no header, /fi means filter. We are filtering for Notepad.exe only above. Then, we take that and look for Notepad.exe using a FindStr command. It will still work, even if we don't have those 2 flags, but it makes finding the right program quicker.